The Bataille Reader

Abstract

ion but a source of contradiction; moreover, it was no longer a question of the providential character of contradiction, which became simply one of the properties of the development of material facts. 2 [See H.-C. Puech's 'Le Dieu Besa et la magie hellenistique', in Documents, 7 (1 930), pp. 41 5-25. TR.] 3 This interpretation has been developed in France by Eugene de Faye (cf. Introduction a /'etude du gnosticisme (Paris, 1903), taken from Revue de I'hiSlOire des religions, vols 45 and 46, and Gnosliques el gnoslicisme. Elude critique des documents du gnoslicisme chrelien aux II' el III' siecles (Paris, 1 9 1 3), in Bibliolheque de l'Ecole des Haures Eludes, Sciences religieuses, vol. 27). 4 Wilhelm Bousset, Hauplprobleme der Gnosis (Gottingen, 1907) . 5 Ibid., ch. 3, 'Der Dualismus der Gnosis'.

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